Phelips Arms Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Hotel.

Phelips Arms Hotel

WRENN ID
carved-sandstone-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 April 1961
Type
Hotel
Address
Phelips Arms Hotel, the Borough, Montacute
OS grid reference
ST 498 169
Coordinates
50.94948, -2.71553
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Phelips Arms Hotel is an 18th-century hotel, possibly modified in the early 19th century. It is constructed of ham stone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof, featuring tall coped gables that suggest it may have originally had a thatched roof. The building has two storeys and three bays, with a plinth and band courses. The windows are composite three-unit designs, where the center unit is taller and double the width, fitted with 8+16+8 pane sashes set within stone architraves. The lower sashes of the lower windows have had their glazing bars removed. In the second bay from the left, there is a three-centre-arched throughway with entrance doors on either side. There are projecting signs hanging from wrought-iron brackets beside the upper bay on the left. While the property has been significantly altered at the rear and internally, it remains an important feature in the open area at the center of the village. The hotel was referred to by this name by 1835 and may be the successor to the George Inn, which was first mentioned in 1698 and closed in 1822.

Local climate

Phelips Arms Hotel receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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